Under the auspices of the respected President of the University of Basra, Dr. Saad Shaheen, and under the supervision of the Dean of the College of Education, Qurna, Dr. Adnan Sultan Abdul Nabi, the Educational Counseling Unit and the Women’s Empowerment Unit organized a symposium entitled (How to turn the negatives of life into positives)

 The symposium, which was held in the central hall in the College of Education and was delivered by Mr. Hassoun Latif Al-Battat, the international trainer in human development, included how to overcome failures that an individual can go through and turn them into a turning point for the better by knowing how to benefit from them and transform them from an element of severity or Tightness and failure into an element of strength and success

 The symposium was attended by a number of professors, college staff and a large number of students, and students' questions were listened to and answered